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drouth and a few chinch bugs. Aug. 31, 1887. Clinton, Effing- 

 ham, Madison, Pulaski, Washingron, and Wayne Co's. Corn 

 damaged by drouth and chinch bugs. 



Webster, F. M. — Insects affecting the Smaller Cereal Grains. 

 (Eept. Ind. Agric. Dept., 1886, p. 183, plate Y., figures 4, 5.) 



Hibernates as an adult wherever it can find protection from the 

 elements. Emerges from March to middle of May (according to 

 locality) and deposits eggs, — each female about five hundred. The 

 insects reach maturity in about two months, and then, pairing al- 

 most immediately, deposit eggs for a second brood. Their relative 

 abundance depends on meteorological conditions, dry summers and 

 winters of even temperature being favorable to them, and wet 

 springs and summers and open winters unfavorable. Burning grass, 

 leaves, and rubbish during winter or early spring best preventive 

 measure. To check migration, plow furrow or use tarred boards on 

 edge. 



HiNMAN, D. — Destroying Chinch Bugs. (Prairie Farmer, June 11, 

 1887.) 



"Have fought chinch bugs in two ways. The first is to plow 

 them under deeply with stirring plow. To insure all bags being 

 plowed under, a chain should be so attached to the plow and the 

 singletree of the horse in the furrow that all weeds, etc., will be 

 turned under. The second w^ay is by applying salt. Sowed it 

 broadcast on a patch of Hungarian grass, at the rate of two bush- 

 els to the acre. It stopped their work effectively. I tried the 

 same remedy in a corn field which they had just attack6d, with 

 like results. I believe salt will stop them if put on in time." 



J[ohnson], B. F. — Our Illinois Correspondence. (Cultivator and 

 Country Gentleman, June 16. 1887, v. 52, p. 472.) 



^3 Champaign Co. June 9. "Referring to the drouth now prevail- 

 ing west, I learn from parties who recently returned from exten- 

 sive tours through Central and Southern Kansas, that as far west 

 from Kansas City as the great bend of the Arkansas lino, about 

 99 longitude, the wheat and oats are not worth twenty-five cents 

 an acre, — due to drouth and chinch bugs; that corn is looking well, 

 but ready to receive the bugs when wheat and oats give out; also 

 that a considerable portion of Nebraska is suffering the same in- 

 fliction." 



Statistical Report of the Illinois State Boabd of Agricult- 

 ure FOR June, 1887. Circular 185, pp. 16-37. Corre- 

 spondents' Remarks. 

 Clark, Clay, Crawford, Gallatin, Jackson, Jefferson, Union, 



Washington, Wayne, and White Co's. Winter wlieat more or 



lesR injured by chinch bug, re-enforced in many localities by the 



HeHsiaii fly. 



